Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-16
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.


desired result, but the second time his life
was extinguished. The lynching was wit
messed by about 1,0OOO people.
1t has been discovered that fifty or
sixty Chinese Miners have been murdered
in the placer mines on the Smoke river, in
Oregon. It is the impression that these
pose of robbing the Chinese OF their gold
dust, and that the crimes were perpetrated
by white men. The Chinese minister at
Washington is said to have been communi-
Gated with regarding the outrages. Idaho
papers are calling loudly on Gov. Penloyer
OF Oregon to make some effort to discover
the perpetrators by offering rewards. The
Chinese believe there is an organized band
OF anti-MongOlian vigilantes raiding the
placer mining regions, and they are fearful
lest other sections of the upper county be
visited and more crimes committed.
A large mass meeting of the St. Louis
Merchants Exchange, was presided over by
President Frank Gaienne. After speeches
by prominent citizens, the following was
adopted. The people of st. Louis respect
fully and earnestly extend to the President
of the United States and to Mrs. Cleveland
an Invitation to visit our city and become
| its guests for the week commencing October
1887. In doing SO they beg leave to urge on
the President their desire to give him q
welcome that will demonstrate the respect
and love they have for him as a public off.
Ger and as man. The mayor and com
mittee Of fifty, to be selected by him, were
appointed to proceed to Washington and
deliver the invitation to the President.
Dun & Co.'S, weekly trade review,
says that the business of the broken 9th of
july week, has been on the whole encourag-
ing. The prospects with which the half
year opens are generally satisfactory, and
yet financial uncertainties are not entirely
removed, and there remain great specula-
tive operations which disturb and threaten.
able reports Of injury from drouth and bugs
come from Western Nebraska Southern
reports are uniformly favorable as to cot
ton. An increase of 10 per cent in the acre
age of hay is reported, with a probable in.
creased yield in all sections except the cen
trail West, though the quality is not quite SC
satisfactory
Joseph Gruenhut, the Chicago So
cialist, said in an interview that all hope
I OF new trial for the condemned anarchists
had been abandoned. Funds were still be-
ing collected for them, but the money, in
stead OF being applied to defray legal ex
peAses, is to be used for an entirely differ.
emit purpose. Twenty or thirty persons are
to be set out shortly over the entire state to
procure signatures for petition to Gov
Oglesby praying that the death penalty be
committed. A stated sum will be paid fol-
each signature secured.
The sales of wool, according to
Bradstreet, for the week at Boston are re-
ported at 1876, 900 pounds, as compared
with 2,5sl 900 pounds last week and ,941 ,4o(
pounds in the same week last year. Al
Philadelphia business has been very quiet
this week. Manufacturers of cheviots have
been buying moderately of quarter-blood
domestic and of East India woods suitable
for their purposes, but the general demand
has been light and unsatisfactory. Prices
are unchanged. Receipts continue small.
At Denver, Colorado, the death OF
John A. Winter, president of the Percheron
Norman Horse company, and one of the
most prominent citizens of the state, was
announced Sunday as the result of catarrhal
Of the stomach. It is now charged that Mr.
Writer'S death was caused from arsenica]
poisoning, and that there has been a crime
committed.
At Cheyenne, Wyoming, at 2 O'Clock
Wednesday morning fire completely de-
stroyed the stock of dry goods of Cowhicb
& Whitcomb, valued at $l25,OOO, and dam.
aged the building $4,000. Stock insured
$50, 600, building insured $25,O0O Insurance
distributed between 80 Eastern and foreign
companies. Cause of fire unknown.
About three weeks since, fourteen
tramps were arrested near Canton, O.,
where they had territorized farmers for sew
eral days. They were subsequently indicted
under the tramp law and a test case was
made. Friday they we're found guilty and
twelve of them were sentenced to one YEARS.
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
A party of German excursionists,
numbering 81, were upon the sloop Mystery,
for Sunday outing, and at half past six in
the evening when heading for the channel
off Barren Island, near New York, the sloop
was struck by furious land gale that drove
out the tide, and capsized the craft. Thirty
OF the party were drowned.
The Missouri state supreme court, in
the case of Brooks, alias Maxwell con
demned for the murder of C. Arthur
Preller, and sentenced to be hanged Aug.
II, oyerruled the motion for rehearing. 4
reprieve was granted to the defendant until
Aug rs. The defense will make no further
effort in the case.
The Commercial Bulletin in its June
record shows the largest fire loss of any
June on record, excepting June, 1877, the
month OF the great fire at St. John, N. B.
The total is Sl0 1872 100, against SO, $50 900 for
June, 1856, and larger than the average of
June fires for the 10 years previous to 1856
by nearly 81, 100000.
Oscar M. Kelly, who shot and killed
his wife at Mccoy, Polk county, Oregon,
about six weeks ago, was taken from the
jail at Dallas at O'Clock by mob and
hanged. On first hearing the mob Kelly
broke his lamp and cut his neck, wrists and
ankles, and was rapidly bleeding to death
when seized.
The Texas election upon the question
of Prohibition takes place August 4. The
Galveston News sums up the probabilities
OF the vote as it appears to-day: Prohib-
ition 154 ,3T inducing $4,000 negroes: Anti
Prohibition 170,623. It is admitted that the
AUTHORIZATION vote may be larger than
estimated.
During a thunder storm at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn, a party of colored people
attending a burial in the cemetery took ref
uge under the trees. An oak tree was
struck by lightning under which nine per-
sons were standing and all were killed.
Recently an eight-inch vein of quartz
carrying free gold in immense quantity has
been developed on lands of the Lake Supe-
rior Iron company near Ishpeming, Mich,
by officials Of that company.
Gen. Walter c. Whitaker, who served
in the Union Army during the war, died at
his home in Lyndon, near Louisville, KY,
Saturday night.
IN THE EAST.
At New York City, on the-12th, fire
occurred in the photograph material house